A stretch of land between Hobson Grove Park and Morgantown Road in Bowling Green may soon become part of the city’s planned greenway loop after the city last week approved
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FILE PHOTO: Trees line the James River in Richmond. (Creative Commons License)
Over the last month, Reforest Richmond has distributed more than 8,000 Eastern Redbud tree saplings.
Reforest Richmond is a campaign from the Richmond Tree Committee, an arm of the city council-created Green City Commission. The campaign mobilized more than 60 volunteers to hand out trees at dozens of distribution sites in November. Many of these sites were Richmond Public School facilities, intentionally picked because they’ve acted as free meal distribution sites during the pandemic.
Daniel Klein, the Green City Commission vice chair who heads the Reforest Richmond campaign, said their focus is “restoring the tree canopy with an equity lens.”